{"id":15808,"date":"2018-07-12T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15808"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:45:09","slug":"proclaiming-the-kingdom-of-gods-spousal-merciful-love-14th-thursday-ii-july-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/proclaiming-the-kingdom-of-gods-spousal-merciful-love-14th-thursday-ii-july-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Proclaiming the Kingdom of God&#8217;s Spousal, Merciful Love, 14th Thursday (II), July 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of SS. Louis and Zelie Martin<br \/>\nJuly 12, 2018<br \/>\nHos 11:1-4.8-9, Ps 80, Mt 10:7-15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15808-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.12.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.12.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.12.18-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today through the Prophet Hosea we continue to focus on the reality of the merciful dimension of Christ&#8217;s spousal love. Through his prophet\u00a0God first describes the infidelity of the people of Israel, how after he had rescued them from slavery in Egypt, rather than keeping his covenant, drawing closer to him, and seeking to become holy as he is holy, they broke his covenant, wandered far from him, and became idolatrous. \u201cThe more I called them,\u201d God says through Hosea, \u201cthe farther they went from me, sacrificing to the Ba\u2019als and burning incense to idols. \u2026 I drew them with \u2026 bands of love, I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks, yet, though I stooped down to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer.\u201d Yet, even though God\u2019s people had repeatedly committed spiritual adultery and it would have been fitting for God to have reacted with righteous indignation, he responded rather with mercy. \u201cMy heart is overwhelmed, my pity is stirred,\u201d he tells us today through Hosea. \u201cI will not give vent to my blazing anger. I will not destroy,\u2026 for I am God and not man, the Holy One present among you, [and] I will not let the flames consume you.\u201d To symbolize God\u2019s relationship to his people, he had Hosea marry Gomer, a prostitute, to show that God\u2019s will was mercifully to take us back after we had engaged in infidelity with other deities, saying, as the Church heard at daily Mass on Monday, \u201cI will espouse you to me forever \u2026 in right and in justice, in love and in mercy. I will espouse you in fidelity and you shall know the Lord\u201d (Hos 2:17-18; 21-22).<\/li>\n<li>This was the plan of God that was fulfilled when Christ, the Bridegroom, eventually came. As St. Paul described for us in his Letter to the Ephesians, \u201cChrist loved the Church and handed himself over for her to made her holy, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word so that he might present to himself the Church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle, \u2026 that she might be holy and immaculate\u201d (Eph 5:25-27). Despite our sins, Christ not only forgave us, he not only redeemed us by taking us back, but through his merciful love, he changed us, taking our sins away, so that we in the Church might be his holy and immaculate Bride. He continues to do this work of redeeming love through the Sacraments of Baptism and Reconciliation, through the holy bath of his Word and through the one-flesh consummation of our spousal union with him in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.\u00a0That\u2019s the power of his mercy and the goal of his mercy. That\u2019s what we are called to receive. That\u2019s also what what we\u2019re called to live, rejoice in and proclaim.<\/li>\n<li>That brings us to today\u2019s Gospel. The true experience of God\u2019s mercy is not something we can or ought to keep to ourselves. It\u2019s a gift we\u2019ve received that we\u2019re called to announce to others.\u00a0Today in the Gospel, Jesus sends the apostles on their first missionary journey. These would be the ones to whom on Easter Sunday evening he would entrust the power of the Holy Spirit so that just as God the Father had sent him as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world, he could send them with God\u2019s authority to forgive and retain sins in his name (see Jn 20:19-23). He was preparing them \u2014\u00a0and through them, us \u2014\u00a0to take his mercy to the ends of the earth.\u00a0In this first expedition of evangelization, Jesus didn\u2019t give them a lengthy message, just five words in St. Matthew\u2019s Greek, and seven in our English translation: \u201cThe Kingdom of heaven is at hand!\u201d What was far more important than words was for them to incarnate the message of the arrival God\u2019s Kingdom in the living, breathing presence of the long-awaited King. His kingdom, they were to announce in the present tense, is one of liberating truth and loving mercy. As a confirmation of the succinct but staggering heraldic proclamation, Jesus gave them his authority to do the very same things he was carrying out to confirm that the long awaited Messiah had indeed come. He told them, \u201cCure the sick, raise the dead,\u00a0cleanse the lepers, drive out demons.\u201d They were to manifest God\u2019s power over every disease and illness, his power over life and death, his ability to cleanse us of our outer and inner leprosy and all of the alienation associated with it, even his power over the devil. Jesus didn&#8217;t want his Father to be able to say about his and the apostles&#8217; contemporaries, &#8220;They didn&#8217;t know I was their healer.&#8221; \u00a0But in addition to the proclamation and power, he sent them out with a particular \u201cpackaging\u201d for the message and deeds he was sending them to announce and accomplish. He wanted them to show by their behavior that the Kingdom had really come and what life in the kingdom looks like. By their peace, by their mutual love and mercy, by their trust in God\u2019s providence, by their joy,\u00a0he wanted them to be a living display of life in that kingdom. And that\u2019s why he told them:\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWithout cost you have received; without cost you are to give\u201d \u2014 They were not to be preaching in order to gain but to help others be enriched. They were to be signs of the gratuitousness of God&#8217;s spousal love.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDo not take gold or silver or copper for your belts;\u00a0no sack for the journey, or a second tunic,\u00a0or sandals, or walking stick.\u201d \u2014 They were to show that they took seriously what they were declaring, the presence of a God who tells us not to worry about what we are to eat, drink, wear or where we are to sleep, because God knows what we need before we ask for it and cares for us more than he cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the sky (Mt 6:25-30). They were to be signs of God&#8217;s providence.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it,\u00a0and stay there until you leave.\u201d \u2014 Jesus wanted them to be grateful for the hospitality given, rather than perpetually looking for a better deal. They were to be signs of how God wants to enter and stay in every home.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAs you enter a house, wish it peace.\u00a0If the house is worthy,\u00a0let your peace come upon it;\u00a0if not, let your peace return to you.\u201d \u2014 Jesus was telling them not to make prejudgments or hold themselves back to determine first whether a peaceful person lives there, but to be disposed to give his peace to everyone everywhere. They were to be signs of God&#8217;s openness to everyone if only they will receive him and the peace that life with him brings.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, \u201cWhoever will not receive you or listen to your words, go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet.\u201d \u2014 Jesus wanted them not to be weighed down with bad memories or nurse wounds from one place to the next; if they experienced rejection, he wanted them to let it go rather than carry it to the next place, so that \u201cthe good news of great joy\u201d would not be masked by the sadness of a previously negative experience. They were to be signs of God&#8217;s respect for our freedom, of the love that is shown in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, as those who are prone not toward grudges but forgiveness. They were also to be signs that God cares for others too and that those that receive grow in faith whereas those who don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This \u201cpackaging\u201d is needed in every age, because the Gospel must authentically be <em>seen<\/em> before it\u2019s truly <em>heard<\/em>. People respond to witness far more than words. It\u2019s through seeing our generosity that others will come to the source of all munificence. It\u2019s through our trust in God\u2019s providence that others will be opened to see how ever-reliable God is. It\u2019s through our own peacemaking that others will begin to discern the Prince of Peace. It\u2019s through our resilience that people will see that we\u2019re sowers of an imperishable seed and are undismayed when occasionally we encounter hardened, rocky or thorny soil. It\u2019s through the way we love each other, the way we forgive each other, the way we show the joy of mercy received and given, that others are able to come to the God who has first forgiven us a debt of 10,000 talents and made us capable of paying that wealth forward to all those who owe us by their sins 100 denarii.<\/li>\n<li>We know that when Jesus sent out his apostles to announce the kingdom, he sent them out two-by-two, even though they could have covered twice as much ground. He did this, as St. Gregory the Great commented, so that they could in fact live the Gospel of love of neighbor, of forgiveness, ultimately of God&#8217;s paternal and spousal love with each other. And we know that most of the pairs of disciples God sends out two-by-two he sends out hand-in-hand with wedding rings. Today the Church celebrates one of the greatest of those couples, SS. Louis and Zelie Martin, parents of St. Therese Lisieux, who were raised to the altars ten years ago today. \u00a0The marriage of Louis and Z\u00e9lie is not a hagiographical <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. It begins not with erotic love but with the agapic love of God, which ordered their romantic love and gave it far greater beauty.\u00a0At the time of their marriage, 160 years ago tomorrow, Louis was a 35 year-old watchmaker. At the age of 22, he had sought to become a monk at the famous Grand Saint Bernard Monastery in the French Alps. He was initially accepted, but when they discovered that he knew no Latin, he was sent home to study the humanities privately. He assiduously began, but a succession of illnesses forced him to give up his studies. After some travels, he returned to Alen\u00e7on, where he earned a good living as a watchmaker and sought to please the Lord of time and eternity.\u00a0His mother, however, was not satisfied with his being a bachelor, no matter how pious. One day in 1858 a 26-year-old lace-maker, Z\u00e9lie Gu\u00e9rin, came to her notice as someone who would make an excellent wife for her son. She began to work with various celestial matchmakers to try to bring them together. Like Louis, Z\u00e9lie was a very pious young woman who had sought religious life. After years of suffering from migraines and receiving scant consolation from her mother, she tried to follow her older sister Marie, a Visitation sister, into religious life, expecting to find there understanding and support than she received at home. She was drawn by the work of the Daughters of Charity and applied for entrance. The superior informed her, however, that she did not have a vocation to the religious life. Z\u00e9lie took this rejection as a clear sign from God and responded with faith. \u201cSince I am not worthy to become your spouse like my sister,\u201d she prayed, \u201cI will enter the married state so as to fulfill your holy will, O God. I beg you, however, to send me many children, and grant that they may all be consecrated to you!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Their fateful first encounter happened on St. Leonard\u2019s Bridge in Alen\u00e7on. As Z\u00e9lie was passing Louis in the opposite direction, she heard an interior voice saying, \u201cThis is the husband I have destined for you.\u201d She stopped and they became acquainted. Three months later they were married. Louis\u2019 original hope was to live as brother and sister in a \u201cJosephite marriage,\u201d where they could dedicate themselves to prayer and charity. Although Z\u00e9lie was willing to make this sacrifice for her husband and lived this way for ten months, she was hoping instead to have many children and raise them up for God. Eventually a confessor helped them to see that God was asking them to demonstrate that sanctity could be obtained in a holy marriage, through mutually self-giving sexual love according to God\u2019s designs. They followed his advice without reservation and, over the span of 19 years of marriage, were blessed with seven girls and two boys. Z\u00e9lie\u2019s prayer that her children all be consecrated to God was fulfilled in several ways. They were all first consecrated to the Lord in baptism almost immediately after birth. The Lord saw fit to call four of them home soon thereafter, still in their baptismal graces. The five girls who survived childhood all were consecrated to the Lord in religious life, four in the Lisieux Carmel and the fifth as a Visitation sister. The Martin\u2019s home was a school of holiness with the parents as model students and teachers. The whole family attended Mass each day at 5:30 in the morning. They recited daily prayers as a family in front of the statue of our Lady in their home. They all took responsibility for serving each other in the home and for doing their schoolwork. As a family they made pilgrimages to various shrines in France. Louis made retreats with the Trappists, Z\u00e9lie with the Poor Clares. Louis was a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and was very generous to the poor and needy. Z\u00e9lie ministered to the sick and the dying, making sure they were prepared by the sacraments to meet the Lord. Both parents formed their children in the faith, in life, and in virtue. St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se said that in whatever plans her parents made, they looked toward eternity, oft-repeating the phrase that \u201ctrue happiness is not of this world.\u201d Z\u00e9lie died at the age of 45, having battled breast cancer for a decade and migraines for even longer. Until the end, she overcame her pain to attend daily Mass, where she would unite her sufferings to Christ on the altar. At her death, her husband and the priests of Alen\u00e7on in unison said there was one more saint in heaven. Louis would die 17 years later, spending the last seven years of his life mainly in institutions as a result of severe strokes that caused hemorrhaging, memory and speech loss, hallucinations, and partial paralysis. He accepted it all with resignation to the will of God and looked at all these events as a means by which he could live as a hermit in this world in anticipation of the communion of the saints in the next. The Church teaches that the two-fold end of the sacrament of marriage is the mutual sanctification of the spouses and the procreation and education of children to be saints. Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin fulfilled this vocation with distinction and joy. They proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom, their house radiated the peace and spousal love of that kingdom, and their love for their children was like God&#8217;s love for Israel that Hosea described.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we celebrate Mass on their feast day, we thank the Lord for the gift of their example, we pray for all our families and married couples, and we ask for the grace, as we prepare to welcome the Prince of Peace &#8220;under [our] roof&#8221; in Holy Communion, we may dwell in the Kingdom made possible by that Eucharistic King.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/hosea\/11:1\">HOS 11:1-4, 8E-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the LORD:<br \/>\nWhen Israel was a child I loved him,<br \/>\nout of Egypt I called my son.<br \/>\nThe more I called them,<br \/>\nthe farther they went from me,<br \/>\nSacrificing to the Baals<br \/>\nand burning incense to idols.<br \/>\nYet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,<br \/>\nwho took them in my arms;<br \/>\nI drew them with human cords,<br \/>\nwith bands of love;<br \/>\nI fostered them like one<br \/>\nwho raises an infant to his cheeks;<br \/>\nYet, though I stooped to feed my child,<br \/>\nthey did not know that I was their healer.My heart is overwhelmed,<br \/>\nmy pity is stirred.<br \/>\nI will not give vent to my blazing anger,<br \/>\nI will not destroy Ephraim again;<br \/>\nFor I am God and not man,<br \/>\nthe Holy One present among you;<br \/>\nI will not let the flames consume you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/80:2\">PS 80:2AC AND 3B, 15-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (4b)\u00a0Let us see your face, Lord, and we shall be saved.<br \/>\nO shepherd of Israel, hearken.<br \/>\nFrom your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.<br \/>\nRouse your power.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Let us see your face, Lord, and we shall be saved.<br \/>\nOnce again, O LORD of hosts,<br \/>\nlook down from heaven, and see:<br \/>\nTake care of this vine,<br \/>\nand protect what your right hand has planted,<br \/>\nthe son of man whom you yourself made strong.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Let us see your face, Lord, and we shall be saved.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/1:15\">MK 1:15<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nThe Kingdom of God is at hand:<br \/>\nrepent and believe in the Gospel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/10:7\">MT 10:7-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his Apostles:<br \/>\n\u201cAs you go, make this proclamation:<br \/>\n\u2018The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u2019<br \/>\nCure the sick, raise the dead,<br \/>\ncleanse the lepers, drive out demons.<br \/>\nWithout cost you have received; without cost you are to give.<br \/>\nDo not take gold or silver or copper for your belts;<br \/>\nno sack for the journey, or a second tunic,<br \/>\nor sandals, or walking stick.<br \/>\nThe laborer deserves his keep.<br \/>\nWhatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it,<br \/>\nand stay there until you leave.<br \/>\nAs you enter a house, wish it peace.<br \/>\nIf the house is worthy,<br \/>\nlet your peace come upon it;<br \/>\nif not, let your peace return to you.<br \/>\nWhoever will not receive you or listen to your words\u2014<br \/>\ngo outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet.<br \/>\nAmen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable<br \/>\nfor the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment<br \/>\nthan for that town.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/louisezellie.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15809\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/louisezellie.jpg?resize=300%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/louisezellie.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/louisezellie.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/louisezellie.jpg?resize=640%2C442&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II Memorial of SS. Louis and Zelie Martin July 12, 2018 Hos 11:1-4.8-9, Ps 80, Mt 10:7-15 &nbsp; To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0 &nbsp; The following points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10723,1063,3,4],"tags":[4327,9763,9760,9761,611,8484,483,9782,9764,2328,2544,9762],"class_list":["post-15808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-2018-year-ii","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-year-ii","tag-bridegroom","tag-gods-providence","tag-hos-111-4-8-9","tag-mk-107-15","tag-peace","tag-proclaiming-the-kingdom","tag-ps-80","tag-saints-louis-and-zelie-martin","tag-shake-the-dust","tag-spiritual-poverty","tag-st-therese-lisieux","tag-the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-at-hand"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Proclaiming the Kingdom of God&#039;s Spousal, Merciful Love, 14th Thursday (II), July 12, 2018 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/proclaiming-the-kingdom-of-gods-spousal-merciful-love-14th-thursday-ii-july-12-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Proclaiming the Kingdom of God&#039;s Spousal, Merciful Love, 14th Thursday (II), July 12, 2018 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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